Wouter,

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Afterall if we just added the individual results to form one listing than we would have multiple numbers 1's, 2's, 3's etc in the same coloms. Besides this would be meaningless as the races can be held in different conditions from one another and some pool could be more heavily contested than another. Maybe Booths 2 1st were scored in the weaker pools while his 15th and 3rd palcings were scored in the more contested pool ? I don't know, just wondering how the "Current standing" is composed.


See ISAF Appendix KE - extended sailing instructions. Splitting a large fleet into flights and having multiple firsts etc in the results is relatively common now; especially during qualifying; some events rotate the flight members (as per App KE), some do not. The good sailors still seem to end up top of the pile; slighty different course conditions notwithstanding.

Here's a link to an (artificial) example:-

flight points

The (artificial) recorded results looked like this:-

flight places

I don't think there's anything special about the usual way of accumulating points that makes it 'correct' anyway; there are other ways to score a series that are just as justifiable, like 'who-beat-who-the-most'.

CJ

Last edited by sailwave; 07/14/04 05:09 AM.